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*First Call for Papers Springer - SPELLL 2022 - 1st International Conference on Speech and Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages23 – 25 November, 2022SSN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, CHENNAI, INDIAURL: http://www.spelll.org/ http://www.spelll.org/*

*Greetings!!!*

*The Department of CSE, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, India is organizing 1st International conference on **Speech and Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages (SPELLL - 2022**), during 23-25 November, 2022.*

*We invite submissions of original, unpublished technical papers in the following tracks:*

* Track 1: Language and Speech Resources - Lexicons and machine-readable dictionaries- Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Morphological analysis, Syntax and Semantics- Corpus development, tools, analysis and evaluation- Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data- Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications- Annotation, analysis, enrichment of text archivesTrack 2: Language Technologies - Code-mixing- Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics- Computer-assisted language learning - Covid-19 alert, NLP applications for emergency situations and crisis management- Equality, diversity, and inclusion for language technology- Fake news, spam, and rumour detection- Hate speech detection and offensive language detection- Machine translation, sentiment analysis, and text summarization- Text and data mining for social sciences and humanities research- Text and data mining of (bio) medical literature, including pandemics- Knowledge representation and reasoning- Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis- Applications for language, data and knowledge- Question answering and semantic search- Text analytics on big data- Semantic content management- Computer-aided language learning- Natural language interfaces to big data- Knowledge-based NLPTrack 3: Speech Technologies - Speech technology and automatic speech recognition- Spoken dialog systems and analysis of conversation- Spoken language processing — translation, information retrieval, summarization resources and evaluation- Speaker verification and identification- Multimodal/multimedia speaker recognition and diarization- Analysis of speech and audio signals- Speech coding and enhancement- Speech recognition - architecture, search, and linguistic components- Speech, voice, and hearing disorders- Speech synthesis and spoken language generation- Cross-lingual and multilingual components for speech recognition / code switching- Dialect identificationTrack 4: Other Related Topics - Analysis of para-linguistics in speech and language- Multimodal analysis- Visualisation of social sciences and humanities research IMPORTANT DATES - Paper Submission Due: July 30, 2022.- Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2022.- Camera Ready Submission: October 30, 2022.- Conference: November 23-25, 2022*

*The conference accepts regular and short papers. Accepted papers that are presented at the conference will be included in the conference proceedings published in the Springer CCIS (*Communications in Computer and Information Science*) series. *Volumes published will be indexed in Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) - part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science, EI Engineering Index, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar and Scopus.

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* For further details please visit our website: www.spelll.org http://www.spelll.org/*

*We also request you to kindly circulate this among your peer research group.*

*For any queries, feel free to contact the coordinators.*